. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/GEN/578 
27 June 2005 
 
 (05-2730) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
RECOGNITION OF SOUTHERN PERU AS A FOOT-AND-MOUTH 
DISEASE-FREE ZONE WHERE VACCINATION 
IS NOT PRACTISED 
 
Communication from Peru
 
 
  The following communication, dated 22 June 2005,  is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Peru. 
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 1. Peru is pleased to inform the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures that the 
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has recognized southern Peru as a FMD-free zone 
where vaccination is not practised .  This decision was adopted on 25 May 2005 by the 
OIE International Committee at its 73r d General Session, held in Paris. 
 
2. The region classed as 'FMD-free without vaccination' comprises the departments of Ica, Ayacucho, Huancavelica, Apurimac, Madre de Dios , Arequipa, Moquegua, Tacna, Cusco and Puno.  
It is home to 45 per cent of Peru's bovine populati on, 60 per cent of its ovine population, 35 per cent 
of its caprine population, 29 per cent of its swin e population and 94 per cent of its South American 
camelid population. 
 3. It should be noted that since 1998 Peru has been implementing, through its National Agrarian 
Health Service (SENASA), a plan to control an d eradicate foot-and-mouth disease throughout the 
national territory, its aim being to gain and maintain  status as a country free from the disease, in strict 
compliance with OIE standards and guidelines.  This  objective has been achieved after seven years of 
intensive work.  The current situation is as follows: 
 
– 97 per cent of the territory is recognized under a national standard as free from foot-
and- mouth disease without vaccination (35 per cent is recognized under an 
OIE international standard) . 
 
– 3 per cent of the territory is recognized under a national standard as free from foot-
and-mouth disease with vaccination. 
 
4. In order to achieve these results, Peru creat ed a legal basis consistent with international 
standards;  modernized, expande d and refined the national epidem iological surveillance system;  
reinforced its quarantine protection system;  modern ized its diagnostic laborat ories;  implemented a 
nationwide cold chain;  and conducted intens ive vaccination campaigns with the extensive 
participation and support of livestock farmers.  5. The new sanitary status will favour the growth  of trade relations, allowing for the recognition 
and opening of new international markets for the ex port of animals and products and by-products of 
animal origin. G/SPS/GEN/578 
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